Your Servant Event has been Approved

I just checked the LCMS Servant Event website to see if our application for our summer Servant Event had been approved yet, and 'lo and behold, we are approved for our servant event! It always feels good to be approved doesn't it. Even if it is by the LCMS Servant Event committee.

This summer we are planning a servant event to the beautiful country of Costa Rica. Camp Dixie will be working with congregations from all over the United States to send up to 32 High School aged youth to Camp Penuel July 3-13 to assist in a "winter break" (yes, they consider that time to be their winter break) retreat at the camp. This retreat will focus on campers who live in largely urban areas who have never had the chance to spend time in the lush Costa Rican countryside. They will be transported to the camp to experience the great outdoors that God created, and to meet the Servant Eventers from the United States.

We will know more details of the event after we talk to the Director of Camp Penuel over Thanksgiving, but we are very excited about the opportunity to help high school students from all over the country find that they are "Called" to tell others about the love of Jesu Christo.

Incidentally the picture above was taken in 2004 at Camp Penuel by Moxie when she was there with Twinkie's high school group. What beautiful countryside.
God's Peace, See you at Camp!
-Mac